Daroc Posted September 22, 2014 Share Posted September 22, 2014 Check this movie trailer for WW2 Tank battles. With Brad Pitt, & Shia Lebouf 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trooper117 Posted September 22, 2014 Share Posted September 22, 2014 Interesting stuff! Didn't know this film was being produced... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erwin Posted September 22, 2014 Share Posted September 22, 2014 It's being advertised all over the theatres here. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kieme(ITA) Posted September 22, 2014 Share Posted September 22, 2014 We get stuff later on in europe, unless it's made here. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronCat60 Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 Alright a Python fan! Yep all antsy waiting to see how well they do with presenting the war. Lot's of good WW2 flicks lately, they have to live up to the standards to succeed. I like the fact that Brad Pitt's Staff Sergeant Stripes are hand sewed on. Showing he's been at it awhile and has been promoted during the conflict or has drawn a new jacket from supply and had to sew it on himself as fancy tailor shops are not handy in a combat environment. I remember having a sewing class that I taught to my troops so they could mend their uniforms in a presentable manner and in a way so the stitching would last. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kettler Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 Daroc, Thanks for this! "Fury" is the war movie whose filming in England on Remembrance Day with a real German tank and a bunch of "German" soldiers and gear set a lot of teeth on edge. That is a real Tiger 1, normally found at Bovington in the Tank Museum there. Those Sherman tanks are way too close together, but it does look good on film. In one of the last assaults of the Tunisia Campaign, 3 RTR's tanks were 50 yards apart. The film looks wonderfully gritty, and there were infantrymen who got a few hours of training, if that, and found themselves part of tank crews. If that sounds crazy, is it any crazier than throwing a gunner, with a whole two weeks of gunnery school, more or less headlong into one of the lead tanks of 3rd AD right before a major attack begins? Read that incredible story and what happened subsequently in Irwin's Another River, Another town: A Teenage Gunner Comes of Age in Combat--1945. mech.gato, When/if I'm reunited with my library (as opposed to the small collection of books I have with me), I believe I have a 1960s vintage book on how to repair uniforms and equipment via hand sewing. Regards, John Kettler 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erwin Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 They have large WW2 re-enactments in UK all the time. Good source for extras. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vergeltungswaffe Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 Those Sherman tanks are way too close together, but it does look good on film. In one of the last assaults of the Tunisia Campaign, 3 RTR's tanks were 50 yards apart. Spacing is a beast in combat, and sometimes out of combat. April 43 in the Fondouk Pass. 13 Churchhills of the King's Own KO'ed in Normandy. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultradave Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 13 Churchhills of the King's Own KO'ed in Normandy. If smoke were coming out of most of those it might resemble a couple of CW scenarios I failed at. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 13 Churchhills of the King's Own KO'ed in Normandy. No wonder they were all taken out. Bunched up like that, a single ATG could take them all out as fast as it could be loaded. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Canadian Cat Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 But it would need an awful lot of ammunition: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erwin Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 Man, hope their CO was fired (one way or the other). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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